Category: Impeachment

Trump Reportedly Ordered Michael Cohen to Lie to Congress

According to a bombshell new report by BuzzFeed News, President Trump personally ordered his former attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about Trump’s efforts to pursue a real estate deal in Moscow. As background, throughout the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump denied any efforts to pursue deals in Russia. In 2017, Michael Cohen testified to
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Inspector General: GSA Ignored Constitutional Problems with Trump Hotel Lease

The Office of Inspector General of the General Services Administration issued a scathing report on “Evaluation of GSA’s Management and Administration of the Old Post Office Building Lease.” As the Inspector General concludes, GSA lawyers essentially ignored a glaring constitutional problem with leasing this federally-owned building to the Trump Organization. As background, the GSA administers
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Ron Fein and Ben Clements Speak at the Boston #NotAbovetheLaw Rally

On November 8, 2018, Free Speech For People Legal Director Ron Fein and Board Chair Ben Clements spoke at the Boston #NotAbovetheLaw rally regarding the importance of protecting the Mueller investigation and pursuing impeachment to challenge the President’s egregious violations of the Constitution and abuses of office. The #NotAbove theLaw rallies took place last night
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No Supreme Court Confirmation Until Impeachment Hearings and Criminal Investigation Have Concluded

We call upon the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to postpone the confirmation hearings for any potential nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court until both Congressional impeachment proceedings and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal investigation have concluded. This is the first time in American history that a president’s campaign has been under criminal investigation for potential
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New ground for impeachment hearings: cruel and unconstitutional imprisonment of children and their families

We have added a new ground to our call for Congress to start hearings on whether to impeach President Trump: cruel and unconstitutional imprisonment of adults and children. Background As we noted in our statement earlier this week, under Trump’s dictate, several thousand children have been seized from their families—who were often told that their
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Our Statement on President Trump’s Policy of Breaking Up Families and Imprisoning Children

We at Free Speech For People are disgusted by Donald Trump’s policy of breaking up families and imprisoning migrant children. Under Trump’s policy, children are seized from their families—who are often told that their children are just “bathing”—and warehoused in mass orphanages indefinitely while their parents are left unaware of their whereabouts. While there are
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Trump Officials Are Exploring Mass Arrests of US Mayors

Trump administration officials are openly floating the idea of mass arrests of mayors of sanctuary cities. Two different high-ranking officials discussed this on national television in January alone. On January 16, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen told the Senate Judiciary Committee that, at her department’s request, federal prosecutors are “reviewing what avenues might be available” to arrest
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On the anniversary of the Presidential Inauguration, we continue the campaign for an impeachment investigation of President Trump

On this day last year, Free Speech For People, with RootsAction, launched the campaign, Impeach Donald Trump Now, calling for an impeachment investigation to be launched by Congress into the violations of the Domestic and Foreign Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution by Donald Trump. Since the launch of the campaign, we have expanded the
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